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This song, with its ironically discoish synth sounds, detached dance beat and whispered bits of French, at first seems like a piece of world-weary hipness with little heart in it. But as it goes on those synths gather into video game grandeur, those drums become not so much about detachment as about ennui and a sad kind of post-party futility, and the refrain of "Poster of a Girl" takes on a strange and unexpected poignancy.
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On his latest, "Fires in Distant Buildings," Gravenhurst's Nick Talbot brings the latent Brit Pop influences that were buried in his fragile folk music to the surface. That stylistic shift aside, this is the same isolated, spooky music he's always made, and "Animals," which opens with the line "They descend upon the city like flies/ Spraying their eggs into a dead dog's eyes," is one of his creepiest.
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"Animals"
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